Instead of the entire band playing a pregame show outside the stadium, only 1/4 of the 300+ member marching band will perform at Beaver Stadium before and during the team entrance. I’m told from several Blue Band contacts that the logistics of having the entire band play outside the stadium a full 2 hours and 45 minutes before the game is unfeasible, so a decision was made to only include part of the band. The rest of the gameday routine, including the on-field pregame and halftime shows, remain unchanged.

The immediate reaction from several Blue Band members — albeit, a small sample size — was not particularly positive.

Why is Tailgreat funding only becoming an issue this year? Thinking donations and fundraising come before cutting altogether… @OnwardState

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About the Author

Kevin Horne was the editor of Onward State from 2012-2014 and currently holds the position of Managing Editor Emeritus, which is a fake title he made up. He graduated from Penn State with degrees journalism and political science in 2014 and is currently seeking his J.D. at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. A third generation Penn Stater from Williamsport, Pa., Kevin is also the president of the graduate student government. Email: [email protected]

Penn State’s first president Evan Pugh was born in 1828 at Jordan Bank Farm, three miles south of the city center of Oxford, Pennsylvania, an hour west of Philadelphia in Chester County. One-hundred eighty-nine years later, an Oxford brewery is honoring one of the preeminent champions of “liberal and practical” higher education in the form of a delicious Porter.